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Italian researchers sent more than 10,000 resumes out, using the same one and changing only first-name, last-name, address, and the photo included to test ethnic and regional biases as well as the impact of beauty.<p>The average callback rate was 30% across all of the CVs sent out. <b>For attractive</b> …

It's an age-old adage that the way to a man's heart is through his stomach, and for Stephanie Smith, that saying is literal. For the past year, she's been on a quest to make her boyfriend 300 sandwiches in exchange for an engagement ring, and she's documented the whole journey on her blog.<p>"What …

Generally speaking, ABC Family is one of the ‘good guys’. In a sea of male-centric mass-market entertainment, their entire line-up is basically made up of comedies and dramas starring, aimed at, and mostly created by women. We can debate the relative quality of <i>The Secret Life of the American</i> …

The Dalai Lama weighed in on the debate around women leadership and came out firmly on the side of the female.<p>Talking to reporters during a visit to Australia, the Buddhist leader was asked to weigh in on gender during a race for Prime Minister that has included charges of sexism.<p>Speaking …

Hong Kong's security minister came under fire today for saying that women should "not drink too much" if they wanted to avoid being raped.<p>Secretary for Security Lai Tung-kwok was presenting figures on crime in the city for the first quarter, which showed that rape cases soared 60 percent, when he …

Two years ago, in 2011, <i>90 percent</i> of Lego's consumers were boys. A tough statistic to swallow for those of us who grew up playing with Lego's gender-neutral buckets of bricks. But the statistic came straight from Lego, which was then focused on boys with franchised sets based on properties like <i>Star</i> …

Horrific rapes in Bolivia and India remind us that sexual assault can happen anywhere women's bodies and voices are degraded<p>Traditional gender roles, a self-policing community, hierarchies where certain people are considered untouchable: that's a perfect recipe for rampant sexual abuse and …

Teenage girls remain big fans of tans.<p>So a report in <i>JAMA Internal Medicine</i> that found about a third of white high school girls indulge in indoor tans wasn't exactly startling. What was a bit startling was how the tanning industry responded, saying, in effect, that we should be worrying more about …

Grinding up against Robin Thicke is “what the end of the road looks like for the ‘women’s liberation’ movement”<p>President and CEO of Concerned Women for America Penny Young Nance is, of course, very concerned for America. She is also very concerned for Miley Cyrus, and the terrible impact that …

Kick-ass heroines in “Hunger Games” and “Divergent” prove that women are taking over the male-dominated genre<p>English novelist Mary Shelley was born exactly 216 years ago. One hundred and ninety five years ago, she wrote "Frankenstein," one of the world’s most famous science fiction novels of all …